xmotd is a message-of-the-day browser for X11 and dumb-terminals, that
can also be used to broadcast messages to users logged in across a
network.  xmotd periodically checks whether a file has been modified
and pops up and displays the contents of the file, if it has.

WWW: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/xmotd/

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